Surprisingly, the teacher got visibly angry.

Surprisingly, the teacher got visibly angry. He thought that the pupil had obliged the class- mates with an amusement at the cost of his respect as a teacher. The teacher asked the pupil to stand to attention in a corner of the class. The teacher however got further angry at the pupil when he saw that some of his classmates were making signs of teasing at him for his punishment as if he was the one who was prompting the spectacle.

So the teacher asked the pupil to go out and wait for him outside the office of the headmaster while he was continuing with his period. A Real Dilemma. The headmaster on the other hand finding the pupil outside his class missing his les- sons. directed him to return to his lessons. The pupil seeing himself in a real dilemma decided not to venture back to face the teacher while he was in that ugly mood.

Instead, he moved about in the lobbies until the period was over and returned to register his presence outside the office of the headmaster as instructed earlier by the teacher. . Later the teacher informed the headmaster that he was not surprised that the pupil had defied the instruction to return to his lessons because he was already proving himself a cause of indiscipline in the class. He recommended punishment and perhaps a note also to his parents. He was punished.

The pupil though already hurt, was relieved of the apprehension about an additional punishment at home when it appeared certain to him later that no communication was however sent to his parents by the school. Antipathy. The pupil feigned (pretended) severe headache and absented himself in the school to avoid the following period of the geography teacher.

It was obvious that he was developing antipathy (a bitter dislike) towards the school as his only alternative to his emotional reaction to the injustice and humiliation meted out to him. Incidents of open injustice and humiliation are normally wrongly supposed to be accepted as a fair-play and a normal part of the school- experience by the victims according to the parents' antiquated adage that: 'the teacher is always right'.

It falls upon the victims however to suffer silently the agony of the memory of the humiliation for long periods of time while hoping that the news of the incidents do not reach the ears of their parents. Their avenues for a redress do not exist. There happens to be also other avenues of injustice which are not uncommon in the school.